Stories by Joanna Mueller : Contently

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Get going: apps for travelers

A new year means new opportunities for adventure, both near and far. Of course, memorable trips don’t happen by chance. Making sure your travel plans go off without a hitch can take a little extra planning and preparation. Luckily, there’s a tech-savvy solution for all your travel worries. Check out these apps that will help take the stress out of your next getaway.

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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Explores Trauma and Loss Through the Lens of Psychosis

From the opening credits, it is clear that Senua’s story is not a happy one. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice delivers on this promise of a bleak and seemingly hopeless journey. An ever present darkness threatens to consume our heroine at every trial on her path.
Her every move and thought is subject to criticism from a crowd of inner voices who let her (and us) know that she can never succeed. Even after repeatedly demonstrating her strength and skill, Senua remains consumed by self-doubt and gu...

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Developer Interview: Delving Deeper into My Time at Portia

My Time at Portia is the second title from Pathea Games. We reached out to the dev team to find out more about what the future holds for Portia, as well as what experience they gained working on their previous title, Planet Explorers...

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PAX South: Catching up With Cold War Conspiracy Thriller Phantom Doctrine

Information is everything, time is running out, and you can’t trust anyone, especially your own people. Welcome to the alternate history of Creative Forge Games’ Phantom Doctrine. Set in 1983 during the Cold War, the game tasks players with overthrowing a global conspiracy committed to world domination. Just remember, the enemy is always closer than you think.

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The New 8-Bit Heroes: The Difficulty of Realizing Childhood Dreams

Remember back when you were a kid and you believed that when you grew up you could do anything? Alright, now look around and see how many of those things you’ve actually accomplished. For those of you suddenly overwhelmed with existential dread, The New 8-Bit Heroes is just the salve you need.

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Life is Feudal MMO Early Access Preview: Fun is Futile

There is a certain difficulty in attempting to review (or in this case preview) an MMO. In a single-player game your experience with the story and mechanics is a fairly accurate prediction of what others can expect. On the other hand, MMOs grow and change with time and the ability of their playerbase. One person’s experience can be vastly different from another. Taking that into account, Life is Feudal MMO is the most joyless and frustrating game-world I’ve encountered.

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Wulverblade Review: Bloody Stylish Historical Brawler

The decapitated head of my enemy lays upon the ground before me. I deftly scope it up and hurl it at his comrades laughing gleefully before tearing them to shreds as well. This is Wulverblade.

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5 Games that Show Why Love Sucks

Valentine’s Day, the most sacred day of love ever conceived of by greeting card companies. What better time to reflect on all the ways that love can really screw you over. Here are a few examples of games where love makes everything worse.

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Queer Revenge Thriller Knights-Errant is a Deliciously Dark Historical Drama

In Knights-Errant‘s it quickly becomes obvious that things aren’t always as they seem in this LGBT graphic novel.

The characters are gratifyingly complex in Jennifer Doyle’s intriguing comic thriller. They each have a unique motivation and act according to their own (usually) secret agendas. Doyle’s historically-inspired world is full of nuanced politics, religious beliefs and ideas of gender.

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Epic Rap Battles of Horror: Dead by Daylight -vs- Friday the 13th: The Game

The spooky season is finally upon us mandating that we dive in to all the horror genre has to offer. What better way to partake in some scary than an immersive asymmetric survival horror game? Behaviour Interactive kicked things off back in June 2016 with the PC release of Dead by Daylight. (PS4 and Xbox One versions released the following year). Over the summer, Gun Media and Illfonic joined the mix when they released the digital version of Friday the 13th: The Game.

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What Was Medieval Life Beyond the Modern Lens?

Modern media loves to draw inspiration from life in the Middle Ages. As the genre of medieval fantasy has grown in popularity, so to have the historical inaccuracies about the time.
In an effort to dismiss some of the more prevalent myths of the era, let’s take a look at what medieval life was really like for the common European peasant.